U.S. President Donald Trump has vowed to confiscate Iran’s leftover nuclear material and warned that America is carefully watching its facilities from space.
The president said securing Iran’s enriched uranium remains his administration’s top priority in dealings with Tehran.
“We’ll get that at some point,” Trump, 79, told TV’s “Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson” in an interview that dropped on Sunday. “We have it surveilled. You know, I did a thing called Space Force, and they are watching.
“If somebody walked in, they can tell you his name, his address, the number of his badge,” he said of the technology’s capability. “We have that very well surveilled. If anybody got near the place, we will know about it, and we’ll blow them up.”
During the war in Iran, Trump has weighed the possibility of greenlighting a very risky ground-troop deployment to confiscate Tehran’s nuclear material. So far, he’s held off from giving the go-ahead on that.
The US already bombed three of Iran’s top nuclear sites in June during Operation Midnight Hammer.
But earlier this year, during negotiations with Iran, the regime claimed to still have enough nuclear material that, if fully enriched, would be sufficient for 11 nukes, according to special envoy Steve Witkoff.
Both the US and Israel are believed to have conducted additional bombing near Iran’s nuclear sites.
Trump has long claimed that Iran’s “nuclear dust” is now buried deep, deep underground under a bunch of rubble.
“I think it accomplished a great deal, but it’s not over because there’s still nuclear material — enriched uranium — that has to be taken out of Iran,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told CBS News’ “60 Minutes” of the allies’ joint war against the Islamic Republic.
“All that is still there, and there’s work to be done,” he said, noting that to get rid of the nuclear material, “you go in, and you take it out.”
The Trump administration has been negotiating with Iran for weeks. Last week, The Post reported on a 14-point framework for peace talks between Washington and Tehran. The two sides are still at loggerheads over Iran’s nuclear program.
Trump acknowledged the difficulties of negotiating with Iran because “they make a deal, and then they break it.
“They’re militarily defeated. In their own minds, maybe they don’t know that, but I think they do, because I deal with them. And we cannot ever let Iran have a nuclear weapon,” the president said.
“They have no navy,” he said. “They have no air force. They have no anti-aircraft weaponry. They have no radar. They have no leaders. Their leaders are gone. The first set, the A-Team, is gone. The B-team is gone, and part of the C-team is gone.
“If we left today, it would take them 20 years to rebuild.”
Police have arrested an alleged violent predator over the horrific r@pe of a 59-year-old woman in her Brooklyn apartment.
Jakhongir Sattorov, 38, was charged Saturday, May 9, with three counts of r@pe, two counts of ass@ult, criminal obstruction of breathing, and criminal mischief after he allegedly beat down his victim’s apartment door in Bensonhurst on Friday evening and demanded sex, the New York Police Department said.
When his terrified victim refused, Sattorov beat her and throttled her while carrying out the sickening sexual assault at her home on 15th Ave. and 71st Street at around 8:30 p.m., according to police.
The woman reported the attack to the NYPD at 11:15 p.m. and was later taken to Lutheran Hospital in a stable condition.
She reported that the attacker was her neighbor and said that she knew him, law-enforcement sources said previously.
The suspect has at least seven previous arrests, all for drug possession, sources said.
Cops swarmed the area around the scene Saturday, with NYPD crime scene investigators, detectives, and the Special Victims Squad photographed leaving the home carrying multiple evidence bags.
